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  2. Making a living scamming the scammers - Engadget

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    In a bizarre, somewhat ironic twist, he now makes a living scamming scammers. These days, Kitboga's viewers tend to send in scams they come across. He receives a handful of submissions every day ...

  3. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The scammer begins with a large pool of marks, numbering ideally a power of two such as 1024 (2 10). The scammer divides the pool into two halves, and sends all the members of each half a prediction about the future outcome of an event with a binary outcome (such as a stock price rising or falling, or the win/loss outcome of a sporting event).

  4. Scam - Wikipedia

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    Scam. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of ...

  5. Frank Abagnale - Wikipedia

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    Frank William Abagnale Jr. ( / ˈæbəɡneɪl /; born April 27, 1948) is an American security consultant, author, and convicted felon who committed frauds that mainly targeted individuals and small businesses. [ 1][ 2][ 3] He later gained notoriety in the late 1970s by claiming a diverse range of workplace frauds, [ 4] many of which have since ...

  6. My other life as a Kickstarter scammer - Engadget

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    He originally began plugging a Felix Benson as the magic-worker, but in the most recent example, it's Brett Pearson. The service they offer changes, too. Sometimes it's the promise of better ...

  7. What to do when the robocalls won't stop - Engadget

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    Other tips and tricks. Despite all of this, illegal robocalls still slip through. The FCC and FTC have published guidelines on how to deal with them, and here they are in a nutshell: Hang up ...

  8. Twitch responds to gambling scam drama by banning some ...

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    Taylor Hatmaker. 10:59 PM PDT • September 20, 2022. Comment. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. Twitch is cracking down on some gambling sites after a streamer scammed his peers out of tens ...

  9. To perform this scam, a developer would have to use a network of iTunes accounts to download enough copies of the game to push the game’s gross sales to $20,000.